For many, an insect chorus is the sound of summer. But many Morning Edition listeners wrote in to say they needed help identifying the bugs making the sounds. MONTAGNE: Perhaps surprisingly, most of ...

If you're lying awake on a summer night and a noise from outside is keeping you up, chances are the creature responsible is ...

CINCINNATI, Ohio -- When the Brood X cicadas emerge in parts of the U.S. later this month, they’ll be big and they’ll be loud. “It's crickets-on-steroids kind of thing,” said Dr. Ian Windmill, senior ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio - Jiminy Crickets. It sounds like fall out there. Like clockwork, the sound of crickets began to creep into my summer evenings during the first week in August, just when summer ...

Pictured is a cicada that recently emerged in Oktibbeha County as part of a 13-year periodical brood. The rare emergence not only brought more insects out of the ground, but also additional noise as ...